Nell Grant lost everything and watched her life burn to the ground.
A fiery-hot need for revenge keeps her moving during the day, but dreams of a passionate stranger fill her empty heart at night.
Hunter's associate, Marshal Samuel Kline, hoped to spend a quiet Christmas reunion with his sister in New Orleans, but an urgent assignment sent him to Beaumont, Texas.
In Beaumont, the local sheriff warns of another criminal, a kid who wears all black and loiters at the Silver Star Saloon.
Passions collide as Nell and Sam struggle to balance the scales between her thirst for vengeance and his sense of duty.